Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Slingshot Speeders Turns Orbital Mechanics into a Race
A browser game where you use thrust and gravity assists to capture closed orbits instead of crossing a finish line.
Why it surfacedSlingshot Speeders uses inverse-square gravity, force-based thrust, and Kepler-style orbit checks to make orbital mechanics the actual racing system. Built in Rust with a Bevy WebAssembly client and an authoritative server, it logs crashes, fuel-outs, speeds, and fastest captures across maps including an asteroid field, a planet and moon, and a chaotic perturber course.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.